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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-24

IT is all very well for scientific men and
doctors, certain of whom deny that there
is any such thing as genuine hydrophobia,
to hold that position, and assert that it is
at most mental disease, but facts stub
bornly refute their theories. Here is the
case of the very young child in Connecti-
cut that recently died in horrible convul-
sions some nine weeks after being bitten by
a pet dog, that had acted strangely for
several days. Fear and imagination could
have had nothing to do with that case. So,
too, the present month Mr.. Greene in
Chicago, lost valuable family horse from
the bite of a stable dog that, as the coach
man said, had gone crazy" and hidden
under the stable floor. The horse mani
tested no discomfort for some thirty days
after it was bitten. 1t then became fretful,
and finally unmanageable, tearing its own
flesh and demolishing its stall. 1t was
chained and taken to veterinary hospital
and treated, but suffered so fearfullY that
in mercy it was shot. There, too, was the
case of Marshwald, bitten in August, and
diving late in November in horrible con-
vulsions; the man Muller of Chicago, and
his young son, who were bitten last sum-
mer, and recently died after fearful suffer-
ings, in which the man endeavored to wound
all who came within his reach-these are
cases well attested, where the commissions,
rawlings and horror OF water in some cases,
and craving for it in others, were undeni-
able manifestations, and traceable directly
to the wounds inflicted by the teeth OF
animals that were acting strangely and
wildly to a degree to render it necessary to
kill them. Now, whether these were cases
of genuine hydrophobia or not, matters
but little. The afiiiction may be called by
that or any other name, but the symptoms
were identical in animals and men. To
say there is no true hydrophobia in men is
to bubble upon word. 1t is enough to
know that to be bitten by an animal when
certain symptoms Oh suffering are lllauileSt
in it is dangerous, and in not few cases
leads to death from what it is Just rs con-
venient and well to call hydrophobia as
anything else In a technical sense it may
be very difficult to distinguish only APP
parent from genuine hydrophobia, but it
matters very little to the sufferers, or the
world at large, so long as the results of the
bites of seemingly rabid animals result as
thnv do
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REMEDIES FOR THE DEADLY CIGAR
ETTE.

Dr.. Anna D. French takes for the text
of an essay in the Epoch, the fact that in the
fiscal year 1867. $685. 800 cigarettes
were made in this country, or 274,543, $50
more than in the fiscal year 1856. The
doctor concludes that the manufacture
and use of cigarettes has assumed alarm
ing proportions. 1t has been asoertained
that the smoking Of this article by bows
under fourteen years Of age is enormously
great, and surprises even the manufactur-
ers and dealers. The cigarette has led
women to indulge in smoking 10 a greater
extent in the last few years than in all
the period before, since tobacco came into
use The effect upon the fine nervous
system of women is very injurious. She
denomiuates the cigarette as deadly, and
IN doing 50 speaks advisedly. 1t is un-
necessary to enter into physiological! de-
tails to prove this; it may be accepted ont
of hand, since all physicians are agreed
upon the fact that it is exceedingly iniuri-
Gus. Only the other day We noted
the fact that out of class OF twenty-eisht
applicants for admission to the West Point
Military Academy, twenty-five were re-
Jected as physically unSound because they
had what IS known as 'ihe cigarette
heart" DR.. French, who by the way. is
attaining much prominence as a medical
essayist proposes that the sale of the
cigarette be placed under the ban of the
law. This is not likely to be done. The
demand that the Government shall reau-
late the habits Of the people regarding the
use OF injurious stimulants, narcotics. etc
Is meeting with greater opposition now
than ever before, and there are not want
ing earnest philanthropists and sound
scholars in political philosophy, who hold
that it is more dangerous to extend the
paternalism of government than TO suffer
under the ills due to the undue use Of in
furious articles.
The recent decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States was that the
principle of the right TO life, liberty and
property of which one may not be de-
Prived without due process of law, is not
inoontroyertion of that other principle
, that all property is held subject to the Oh
legation that the use of it by the owner
ahall not be injurious to others, nor to the
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-24

THIRTY-oNE female Chinese slaves were
shipped back to China on the San Pablo
They went not by any order of Court or
judicial decree against their right to land,
but by confession of the slave-masters that
these human beings were brought here IN
defiance of the laws prohibiting the slave
trade and the immigration Of forbidden
classes. This fact California ought to In
dustriously publish at the East 1t will
if thoroughly done, prove a powerful adj
vocate for the California cause, which is
the cause of restriction of coolie immigra,
ton. The sentimentalists of the East are
open to conviction. They have not be-
lieved our iterations that the Chinese
females here are slaves; but they can
scarcely deny the confession of the slavers
The old anti-slavery sentiment still lives
in the East, and we ought to now appeal
TO it directly and forcibly.
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rights Of the community. This doctrine
may be carried to the extent of declaring
that the right of the community is to have
its members grow up physically sound and
fit for the demands of citizenship, which
the use of the cigarette threatens; or the
right of the parent to be protected against
the sale Of the injurious article to his chill
dren. The State goes to that extent al
ready in prohibiting the sale Of liquors to
minors. And we 90 not recall an instance
where the exercise Of this power Of the
State, or its wisdom in this respect, has
ever been questioned. The decision of the
Supreme Court removes the question only
to the State, and if Dr. Freneh's cigarette
prohibition idea is to be attempted by any
philanthropists, it will become question
local to States.
But without entering upon the discus
sion of the economic and philanthropic
question of prohibition, it is to be con-
sdered that so far as the cigarette is con-
cerned no legislation would reach its use,
so long as tobacco is grown and permitted
to be used If the cigarette could not be
procured at the counter, no law could pre-
vent the individual from rolling his own
cigarettes, and indeed among a large class
this form of the cigarette is the only one
INDUCED in. To the figure of l, 637 ,945, SOC,
therefore, there should be added quarter
more at least for the cigarettes made by
the smoker. The better remedy for the
evil is to arouse parents to the danger of
the habit of cigarette smoking by their
children By parental influence some check
can be put upon the i'll, and it will be done
when fathers and mothers are once fully
awake to the fact that the little paper tube
| of tobacco is likely to wreck the youth of
the land, physically, to 4 very large ex-
tent, and that the hope of Il vigorous and
sound manhood is exceedingly slender for
the boy upon whom the cigarette habit
| faStenS
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rhe christmas number Of the Ners

The Christmas number of the Ne,cs Letter
is a very rich and elaborate piece of work.
We doubt the good taste of placing the por-
trait of a Chinese female slave upon the
title page, but there is no accounting for
tastes. The number is handsomely printed
and contains many practical articles. and
good quantity of broad humor-notable is
that travesty on familiar song, We Are
Coming, California, Three Hundred Thou
sand More" There are several excellent
wood cut engravings in the number, and
supplement giving astrolytic views Of San
Rafael and vicinity. There is also folder
supplement of music" Chrysanthemum-
Mazourka de Salon." by May Marriott.
But the chief attraction of the paper is the
very large and handsome colored litho-
graph-in supplement-showing in its en-
tirety, as it viii appear. the exterior of the
Leland Stanford. Jr-, University, Tow in
course of construction at Pslo alto. Il IS
a striking piece Of work, and gives a good
idea of the University buildings. The
Ne,rs Letter in this number has done itself
great credit.
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WHO ARE THEY7
a dispatch from Washington saws:


Congressman Biggs will shortly introduce
measure providing that corps of United States
engineers shall visit California for the purpose
OF making thorough investigation of the by
draunc mining proposition. This course will
be followed in compliance with the almost unan-
Imous request of the farmers and miners who
have so long been at odds on the great problem
Who are they? Who are the farmers
who ask for this stale old matter to be
dragged from its winding sheet and pass
under the scalpel of an Investigating
corps" of engineers? If Congressman
Biggs' proposition is to have engineers ex-
anime such of the rivers of the State as
have been well nigh removed by hydraulic
mining, with a view to the expenditure of
some of the surplus" in the restoration Of
their navigable integrity, no one will OBJ
ject, but all applaud him. But any scheme
or investigation looking to any procedure
that will Justify or permit the continuation
of the destruction of the rivers and low
lands by hydraulic mining will not be in
dorsed by the people, and is not in the III
terest of the State or its river sections.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-24
REJECTING UNDESIRABLE ALIENS

An Illinois Representative in Congress
has introduced a measure to prevent the
incoming of certain classes of evil disposed
aliens, and to require the expulsion by the
Executive of such as are now with us,
whose presence, by reason of their acts,
threats and plots, are dangerous to the
lives, liberty and property OF the people
and the safety Of the Republic. 1t is
scarcely to be expected that such meas
ure will pass now; but it is meeting with a
great deal Of favor. Even papers pub
lished among us in foreign tongues, look
upon some such measure as wise. Thus,
Die Stats Zeitung, of Chicago, sees no OBJ
lection to the scheme, if applied to An
archists and the class of people who are of
the Spies, Lingg, Parsons stripe. The Troy
Times holds that if this measure should
pass and be vigorously executed, the effect
would be magical in Kidding the country of
foreign vagabonds like Herr Most"
A natural and necessary precedent meas
ure is the bill of Senator Stanford, to in
crease the difficulties of naturalization. AS
the Chicago Times says:
When the Anarchist who seeks our hospitality
for the charitable purpose OF overseeing our
laws, robeing our property, ard destroying Us
with internal appliances of murder, has per-
jured himself by swearing to " true allegiance
bear" to our sovereignty, the immunities of
citizenship shield him against the executive
power to summarily expel evil-disp0sed aliens.
The first effect of measure for their summary
expulsion would be to cause every peStilent
alien vagabond to hasten to the nearest Court OF
record to file his perjured declaration OF an in
tention TO become a law-abiding citizen, and
though the declaration alone would not protect
him, by holding his tongue short time, the
loose and slovenly administration OF the Datu-
ralization law would soon cover him with the
penoply OF citizenship, and exempt him from
the operation of measure intended to nd the
country of such alien enemies. The naturallza-
ton laws therefore, ought to be thoroughly
overhauled. and so amended as TO prevent un-
desirable additions TO the roll of citizens.
The naturalization laws, except that the
probationary period is too short, are not
inadequate to protect us against impostors,
such as use citizenship as shield from be-
hind which to assail US. The difficulty
lies mainly with the Courts, which do not
insist upon a right construction of the
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-24

question: as this man attached to the
principles of a republican form of govern
ment ?' and other inquiries of like ma
ture upon which the Court must be salts
fed as to the worthiness of the applicant
to be invested with the regalia of citizen
chin
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eet NJ. e. Church, between x
SUPERIOR CUUET.
Department rwO-van Fleet, Judge.

FRIDAY, December Esd.
John Fenton VS. Minnie Fenton-Decrce of
divorce granted in favor of plaintiff
j. s. Cameron vs. John Il. Carroll-Motion 10
tax costs denied.
p ID. Echdardt VS.. W. J. Milgate-Argued,
submitted and taken under advisement.
John Hasman VS.. Mary Hasman-Continued.
l., G. English * Co. VS.. j. NJ. Avery, admins
trator-Continued one week.
J. NJ X. Mauldin VS.. Cox u Clarke-Continued.
Estate of ]. r. Richter, deceased-Coutinued.
Estate of ". +. LefavOr, deceased-Continued
one week.
Estate of Joseph Costing, deceased-Order
made discharging administrator.
Estate of W. Haase, deceased-Order made
confirming sale OF real estate.
Estate of G. W. Pierce, deceased-Continued.
Estate of Edna Williams, minOr-COntinued.
Guardianship OF L. Wright, minor-Contnued
one week.
Estate of J. II. Sharf, deceased-Order made
setting apart estate to family.
Estate of E. A. and +. G. Sherburn, minors
Order made ordering sale of real estate.
Department One-Armstrong, Judge.
FRIDAY, December 23d.
John Neal vs. NJ. ..Groenveld-Demurrer
overruled.
E. J. DePue VS.. W. p. Coleman-Motion to re-
tax costs granted.
John Gray rs. ]. r. Hodson-Moton to dismiss
appeal denied
Mclaughlin vs.. Brown ct al.-Demurrer over
ruled.
In re- W. A. Scott, an insolycnt debtor-Mo-
tim
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SAN FRANCISCO AGENCIES.

The PAPER is FOR sale at the following places:
J.. P. Fisher, Room q, Merchants h1chalge,
francisco: Grand and Palace Hotel News
stands; Market-stTest Ferry s1d Junction CT
Market and Montgomery street News Stands.
r. Also. for sale on all Trains leaving and
coniuE into Sacramento
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The REooED- UNION is the only paper on
The coast outside Of San Francisco, that re-
ceiyta tie ftSu Associated Press dispatches from
all parts Of the lDor!d. Outside Of San Fran
cisco il has no competitor, in point of mum
5ers. in its home and general circulation
throughout the coast.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-24

THERE is sufficient particularly in the
details reported of the arrival Of Stanley
at Wadelai to justify the belief that the
intrepid explorer was, as late as Septem-
Der, safe. If he did, indeed, reach the
haven, he is probably still recruiting there,
since the report also relates that he had
suffered greatly for months previously.
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ANSWER TO "QUERY. :"

A FEW DAYS AGO THE S. p. r. R. co.
N notified me that three Pianos and one box
of Grand Piano legs were in the freight depot.
Naturally l expected the Mathushek Grand
Piano to which the legs belonged was one of
the three Pianos, and gave notice through the
Bee and RECORD MON to parties who were
waiting to see it, The Grand was shipped No
vember 9th, and was then overdue, and the
freight agent assured me that all the freight of
the steamer Algiers was in except this Piano,
and l could look for the piano on any train, so
did not change the notice, and as the Piano was
intended for the Mcneil Club concerts the rail
road company kindly sent some fifteen dis
patches of inquiry. Ii Query" would attend
less to my business and more to his own, he
might perhaps, be able to sell Piano himself
once in a while, and not be eaten through and
through with malice, hatred and envy, on &C
count of the extraordinary large sales OF the
MathuShek Solid Iron Frame Piano, with its
tuning pins pushed in, which no other Piano
has Just in proportion as the extraordinary
merits of the Mathushek Pianos become known,
it is attacked by its opponents, and when
other Pianos are worn out 1t Is Just IN us prime,
hence their fear and great concern. Had the
Mathushek fewer merits they would take but
little notice of it their attacks are but an evil
dence of the great merits of the Mathushek
Pianos. At the next Mcneil Club concert,
whose first concert was such great success, the
Mathushek Grand will be used, and if it re-
ceives q 1.-THE of the enconiumS pronounced by
such artists as VOgrSh and other fine players on
a similar Mathushek Grand sold to Governor
Stoneman, l shall be more than satisfied.
There are now in Sacramento and vicinity over
500 Mathushek Pianos of all styles, some in use
about 20 years, which is conclusive evidence of
the superiority of the Mathushek Solid Iron
Frame Pianos over all others, especially for
this climate. They have taken First Premiums
at the State Fairs, by more than double, since
1879. inclusive, than any other make (See re-
port: also, Silver Medal at Mechanics Fair,
San Francisco. Call and see them ut Cooper's
Music Store 63l street, and hear the Mathu-
shek Grand at the next concert.
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COLONY LANDS FOR SALE.

TyHE EAST ADDITION TO THE OAK PARK
| Colony Lands is now ready for sale, and
will be sold on easy terms and in tracts to suit,
with prices ranging from SIS to $50 per acre,
and within a mile of the railway station at
Kirkwood. and comprises some of the best fruit
land in Tehama county. For particulars in
quire of
u. a. FAFNE R,
Daft No. 426 K street. Sacramento Cal.
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HENRY GEORGE has yielded at last, and
now confesses that he and his party have
no intention to put Presidential ticket
IN the field. Defeat has taught Mr.. George
,yfcdorn
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Musical Entertainment and Social

A TCALvARY BAPTIST CHURCH, I STREET,
"A between Twelfth and Thirteenth. WEDNES-
DAY EVENING, December 2sth, at s p. NJ. lir.
Crabtree and family will be assisted by local
talent. Admission, . cents. Ice cream and
~ 10 d2s-1t4
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CHRISTMAS CONCERT.

SACRED CHRISTMAS CONCERT WILL
"A be given at the Congregational Church To-
MORROW EVENING, by the Church Choir,
commencing at o'clock. The programme
viii be as follows: Organ prelude, "Te Deum
Laudamus' (Baumbach); hymn; soprano solo;
prayer; selection, "How Lovely Are THY DWELL
ings' (Spohr); bass solo; hymn; contralto solo;
selection, Trust in God (Southardl tenor solo;
Scripture reading; offertory; organ selection
(Thayer); Christmas Anthem (Ripley).
R8-SeatS free All cordially invited. 1t
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NoTTCE.

rJNHE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK
| holders of the Germania Building and Loan
Association of the City OF Sacramento for the
election of four Directors and such other bust
ness as may come before the meeting will be
held at the Office of the Association, No. 10ll
Fourth street, Sacramento, MONDAY, January
9, 1855, at $50 p. M
L. NEUBOURG, President.
H j. GOETHE. Secretary. d4-l2t
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''HOw TO Woo Dame Fortune and How
TO Keep Her."

CAPTAIN CHARLES GOODALL (OF GOOD
| Y all Perkins & Co, San Francisco,l will
lecture to young men as above on TUESDAY
EVENING, December 9th. at S o'clock, in
Young Mems Christian Association Hall, Sixth
street. d243t
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BOARD OF TRADE
CLOSING NOTICE.

TN ACCORDANCE WITH AN AGREEMENT
now on file at the Southern Pacific Freight
Department, in this city, the Business Houses
and Southern Paci &c Railroad Freight Depart
ment are hereby requested to c'ose their places
of business on NEXT MONDAY, December &c,
1887; and also on MONDAY, JANUARY =, 1888.
By order of
1t Board of Directors Board of Trade.
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PERSONAL.

Have tested its virtues personally, and
know that for Dyspepsia Bliliousness and Throb-
bling Headache, Il is the best medicine the
world ever saw. Have tried forty other rene
dies before SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR and
none of them gave more than temporary re-
lief, but the Regulator not only relieved but
cured. Telegraph, Macon, Ga.
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THE CHRISTMAS TREE

AND ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE OR
N phans will be held at the Asylum, Eigh
teenth and L streets,
Wednesday Evening, December 2Sth.
Donations thankfully received.
d9i-1t C. NJ pRODGER
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e. Church. Eleventh street.,

| between H and l-Rev Thomas Filben, pastor.
Christmas services at l045 Choral services by
| quartette choir Mt 7:30, of special Christmas
music. Young peoples meeting at 615. All are
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1887-06-30
ALEXANDRIA. VA
tN- Seasoned Lumber and flooring kept
under cover.
THE WHITE.

An improved hig arm Sewing Machine.
The advantage of high ann, admitting
the passage under il Of bulky garments
without muSsing or selling the compacting
by them, is too well known Ia require des-
Cription.
II will last life time and its range OF
work exceeds that of any other machine.
WiRRI NTED For FIVE YEARS.
Among the many advantages of the
White machine arr its needle, self-sctting IN
every sense of the word always right.
II has the least complicated, the most
simple, durable and complete shuttle ever
made, simplicity in threading being an cs-
pccial feature The shuttle tension Is So
arranged that you can increase il or de-
crease il without removing the shuttle from
the machine or disarranging the work.
All wearing parts of the White are made
adjustable. - that any lost motion incident
a. long usag, can be easily taken UP, thus
avoiding the delay and expense i'll duplica-
ting parts The simplicity i'll threading the
White is unequalcd by any other machine,
and W. would particularly call attention
tn the fact in either the upper or lower
thread. there is no hole Ia thread through
cxccpiing the eye Of the needle.
FIR Family Use, Dress Making, Tailor
in.., the White is without peer.
II. Lee Harden, Agent,
COMPTON, MD. July %.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1887-06-30

BILL NYE ON HIS BIRTH PLACE
A man ought not to criticise his birth
place, | presume, and yet, if / were TO
do it all over again, LIDO not know
whether would select that particular
spot or not. And yet, what memories
cluster about that old house. This
was the place where / first met my
parents. 1t was at that time that my
acquaintance sprang up which ripened
in latter years into mutual respect and
esteem. 1t was there that what may
be termed a casual meeting took place
that has, under the alchemy Of resist
less years, turned to golden links.
forming a pleasant but powerful bOpd
Of union between my parents and my
self. For that reason hope that |
may be spared TO my parents for many
years to come.
There on that spot. with no inner
itance but a predisposition to prems-
ture badness and bitter hatred 10
rum; with no personal property but
misft suspender and . stone bruise,
began a life history which has never
ceased to be q warning to people who
sell groceries on credit.